Context (Display)
Old box list: 'Display 7172-26'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Display)
Historic display label: '46.298 B. Cane dart holder containing darts and gourd for cotton attached.'
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Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card reads, 'c& d. W.G. Tidmarsh. The cotton is for attaching to darts before insertion in blow gun. Quichua-speaking Indians, Tena region. In showcase'.

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1946.298 A-B: 'Two cane dart holders with engraved ornament, and gourd for cotton wadding attached. B contains darts.'

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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Tabitha Cotterill, 1946.298 A-B: 'Incised geometric pattern on both quivers; B also has incised pattern on gourd.'
Event Date 28/6/2000
Author: Katrina Dring

Description (Physical description)
Matiri or dart quiver, gourd and darts for use with blow gun. Bamboo cylinder with circular base of wood adhered using black resin; decorated with line designs; 2-ply plant fibre handle attached with fibre binding below the rim. Large, globular gourd with a circular hole attached to quiver with strips of cane and filled with cotton wool or palm fibre. Four cane darts bound with cotton inside.
Event Date 27/7/2021
Author: Katrina Dring